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Greenpeace was founded in Vancouver, Canada. Greenpeace is a non-governmental environmental organization. Greenpeace evolved from the peace movement and anti-nuclear protests in Vancouver, British Columbia, in the early 1970s. On September 15, 1971, the newly founded Don't Make a Wave Committee sent a chartered ship, Phyllis Cormack, renamed Greenpeace for the protest, from Vancouver to oppose United States testing of nuclear devices in Amchitka, Alaska. The Don't Make a Wave Committee subsequently adopted the name Greenpeace.
The name for a committee formed temporarily for a specific task is an ad hoc committee.
The Nepal Olympic Committee was formed in 1962.
There is no one specific founder of Green Peace. The origins of Green Peace come from the "Don't Make a Wave Committee". The meetings of the committee were hosted by Dorothy and Irving Stowe. Other members of the committee were Marie and Jim Bohlen, Ben and Dorothy Metcalfe, and Bob Hunter. It's first directors were Stowe, Bohlen, and a student named Paul Cote. Canadian ecologist Bill Darnell came up with the name "Green Peace" and, in order to fit the name on a button, Jim Bohlen's son Paul, made it "Greenpeace".
It was formed in 1772 or 1773.
Founded from a peace movement in Vancouver, BC in the 1960's and early 1970's. Greenpeace evolved from the Don't Make A Wave Committee, who was opposed to the nuclear testing in Alaska by the United States of America.
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